Posted in Media Delivery on Jan 18th, 2008
My monthly column in Adotas is up, teaser:
No matter what your politics, these are interesting times in the realm of political marketing. After a decade-long footrace between the parties to out-execute each other in the realm of “microtargeting,” the technique is being painted as the root of all evil by progressives bent on putting the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2008
Between my first and second year of business school I was a strategic consultant at The Monitor Company in Cambridge. During that time Mark Fuller, one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, was obsessed with an exercise to help the company define what he called its “higher moral purpose.”
“All truly great businesses serve a […]
Posted in Social Networking on Jan 15th, 2008
In the process of doing research to find ways to make our website- and more importantly our web experience- better, Nathan passed along iminlikewithyou.com citing the simplicity and elegance of their signup process. At first glance, I chuckled to myself and thought “typical teeny-bopper…” Bubbly, cute rainbows, clouds and pastels welcomed me to […]
Posted in Business Strategy on Jan 11th, 2008
Been a while since my last post, top of mind right now is all this data portability stuff triggered by ScobleGate.
Worth reiterating in case it’s not clear that the idea that your data is yours has been at the very heart of matchmine since day one.
We’re working through the details on what this means before […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Random Thoughts on Jan 10th, 2008
I was at the gym the other night and not surprisingly, like clockwork every January, the place was packed with new members making good on their New Year’s resolutions. When a treadmill finally opened up, it happened to be in the front corner, in spot where exactly only one of the nine TV’s is visible […]
Posted in Content Discovery on Jan 8th, 2008
OK, time to ‘fess up. How many of you gave/got a gift certificate this holiday season because you/they couldn’t find the right gift? Oh, I see. That would be pretty much all of you. True, it’s better than the underwear - 10 sizes too big - from your dear old Aunt May. (Dear Aunt May, […]
Posted in Social Networking on Jan 7th, 2008
Chris Saad has a great article entitled “Top 3 Privacy issues for DataPortability on Social Networks” on the core issues at the center of the data portability debate. Asked for his top 3 concerns for privacy on social networks, Saad answered:
Perception
Control
Language
Chris’ second answer was the one that stuck with me. In his […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2008
In almost all the Cairngorm based applications I’ve worked on, I’ve found it necessary to be able to chain the execution of a set of commands. This is usually necessary in the application’s initialization logic, where one needs to make sure that certain steps happen sequentially.
I’ve seen some chaining implementations that were based on Paul […]
